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Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc

Washington, DC · EIN 45-5257937. Reported 319 grants totalling $66.5M to 222 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. For Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc, the IRS classifies it under public safety & disaster relief rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE M05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 222 distinct organizations, with 4% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
3. How much its list changes. 23% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $172,500. Half of what it reported fell between $95,592 and $250,000; the smallest was $6,835 and the largest $1,500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

53 of 222 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Project Hope - the People-to-People $1,500,000 · 2021
  THIS GRANT WAS AWARDED FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE IN SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA, EUROPE AND AFRICA FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH RESILIENCY PROGRAM TO TRAIN HEALTHCARE WORKERS.
• Ima Innovations $1,000,000 · 2023
  IMA INNOVATIONS (CORUS INTERNATIONAL) - WILL RECEIVE $1M FROM UKRAINE CRISIS RECOVERY FUND FOR A 12-MONTH PROGRAM, BEGINNING IN APRIL 2023, TO REBUILD SMALLHOLDER FARMER AND IDP LIVELIHOODS, INCREASE LOCAL CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE AGRICULTURAL CAPACITY AND PRODUCTION, AND IMPROVE FOOD SECURITY IN KHARKIV OBLAST.
• Community Organized Relief Effort $1,000,000 · 2021
  THIS GRANT WAS AWARDED FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE IN THE UNITED STATES TO EXPAND COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS TO BIPOC NEIGHBORHOODS BY INCREASING TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT TO UNDERSERVED AND HIGH-RISK COMMUNITIES.
• Save the Children $900,000 · 2022
  SAVE THE CHILDREN WILL RECEIVE A $900,000 GRANT FROM CDP'S UKRAINE FUND TO EQUIP 15 KINDERGARTENS, REACH 2,250 CHILDREN, TRAIN 750 PARENTS/CAREGIVERS AND 150 TEACHERS ON EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT TOOLS AND APPROACHES. THE PROGRAM WILL USE SESAME WORKSHOP RESOURCES SO CONFLICT-AFFECTED GIRLS AND BOYS AGES 2-6 IN THE UKRAINE OBLASTS OF IVANO-FRANKIVSK AND ZAKARPATTIA HAVE ACCESS TO SAFE, QUALITY, AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING AND PLAY. THE PROGRAM AIMS TO: 1) IMPROVE ACCESS TO SAFE, QUALITY AND INCLUSIVE ECCD AND PRESCHOOL EDUCATION; AND 2) IMPROVE CHILDREN'S PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AND WELL-BEING.
• Helpage USA $872,336 · 2022
  HELPAGE USA WILL RECEIVE A GRANT OF $872,336 FROM CDP'S UKRAINE CRISIS AND COVID-19 FUNDS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE, BY INFLUENCING THE UN-LED INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN SYSTEM AND THREE COUNTRY-LEVEL SYSTEMS TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE OF OLDER PEOPLE AND BY EMPOWERING NGO HUMANITARIAN ACTORS IN UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, AND ETHIOPIA TO DELIVER AGE-INCLUSIVE HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE AND RECOVERY PROGRAMS AND ENSURE THE PARTICIPATION OF OLDER PEOPLE IN IDENTIFYING THEIR PRIORITY NEEDS AND LONGER-TERM RECOVERY SOLUTIONS.
• Mercy Corps $750,000 · 2022
  MERCY CORPS WILL RECEIVE A $750,000 GRANT FROM CDP TO RESPOND TO THE DEVASTATING SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS FROM COVID-19 AND COMPOUNDING EFFECTS OF THE SEVERE DROUGHT IN THE HORN OF AFRICA. ADOPTING A MARKET-BASED, SYSTEMS APPROACH, THE PROGRAM WILL KICKSTART RECOVERY OF LIVESTOCK-BASED LIVELIHOODS BY SUPPORTING VULNERABLE PASTORALIST HOUSEHOLDS (EMPHASIZING FEMALES AND YOUTH) AND CRITICAL LIVESTOCK MARKET INPUT AND SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND REINFORCING LINKAGES BETWEEN THEM.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 185 of 222 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

18% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Down to the city

Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

How to approach this grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $172,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 47 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: One Thomas Circle Nw 700, Washington, DC, 20005.

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